According to the Texas State Historical Society, Sidney Sherman (1805-1873) was a soldier and entrepreneur, one of ten children of Micah and Susanna (Frost) Sherman, he was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts. Sidney Sherman was orphaned at twelve and at sixteen was clerking in a Boston mercantile house. The next year he was in a business for himself but failed for lack of capital. He spent five years in New York City; in 1831 he went to Cincinnati. In Newport, Kentucky, across the Ohio from Cincinnati, Sherman formed a company, the first to make cotton bagging from machinery. He was also the first maker of sheet lead west of the Alleghenies. Sherman became a captain of a volunteer company of state militia in Kentucky and in 1835 sold his cotton bagging plant and used the money to equip a company of fifty-two volunteers for the Texas Revolution. The volunteers left for Texas by steamer on the last day of 1835. That they were already regarded as soldiers in the Texas army is shown by a land certificate for 1,280 acres awarded Sherman for services from December 18, 1835, to December 16, 1836. They carried with them the only flag the Texans had for the Battle of San Jacinto. Right before the battle of San Jacinto, he said this famous quote, “Remember the Alamo!” He died in Galveston at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. O. Menard on August 1st, 1873. He will always be remembered as a great war hero of the Texas Revolution.
By: ThomasJKL
According to the Texas State Historical Society, Sidney Sherman (1805-1873) was a soldier and entrepreneur, one of ten children of Micah and Susanna (Frost) Sherman, he was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts. Sidney Sherman was orphaned at twelve and at sixteen was clerking in a Boston mercantile house. The next year he was in a business for himself but failed for lack of capital. He spent five years in New York City; in 1831 he went to Cincinnati. In Newport, Kentucky, across the Ohio from Cincinnati, Sherman formed a company, the first to make cotton bagging from machinery.
He was also the first maker of sheet lead west of the Alleghenies. Sherman became a captain of a volunteer company of state militia in Kentucky and in 1835 sold his cotton bagging plant and used the money to equip a company of fifty-two volunteers for the Texas Revolution. The volunteers left for Texas by steamer on the last day of 1835. That they were already regarded as soldiers in the Texas army is shown by a land certificate for 1,280 acres awarded Sherman for services from December 18, 1835, to December 16, 1836. They carried with them the only flag the Texans had for the Battle of San Jacinto.
Right before the battle of San Jacinto, he said this famous quote, “Remember the Alamo!” He died in Galveston at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. O. Menard on August 1st, 1873. He will always be remembered as a great war hero of the Texas Revolution.